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In their central concerns, anthropology and sociology in India have lacked a consistent gender perspective. Women’s issues and gender relations are usually kept confined to a separate niche. Conversely, women’s collective actions (movements) and feminism, while drawing much needed attention to women’s issues, tend to err on the opposite side of exclusivism. In Anthropological Explorations in Gender, Leela Dube addressed a range of interrelated themes in a ...
"Even though kinship systems are important loci for gender relations, most scholars, tend to ignore this aspect when studying gender issues as they consider kinship to be irrelevant or an immutable given. Yet, kinship determines important organizing principles covering a variety of fundamental issues of daily life such as the allocation of resources, division of labour, production relations and a specific ideology of gender. Departing significantly from ...